Posts Tagged ‘mercosur’
Chavez and Lula Make Nice Again
11:16 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Venezuela · Comments Off
14 Dec 2007
Yesterday in Caracas President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil signed new cooperation agreements including energy, agriculture, and industrial treaties. The Brazilian head of state waxed nostalgic:
la relación comercial entre Venezuela y Brasil era de $400 millones en el 2002, y hoy supera los $4,000 millones.
A jump much needed as Venezuela cut off ties with Colombia after the FARC hostage negotiations with Chavez as mediator collapsed.
Via / El Nuevo Herald
Fidel Proves He’s Not Dead Yet
11:13 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Latin America|Politics · Comments Off
21 Jul 2006
Don’t buy the hype. Despite rumores going round that Cuban president Fidel Castro passed from this world, Fidel showed that he ain’t dead yet by making a surprise appearance at Latin American trade talks in Argentina.
Castro’s surprise visit to Argentina honors the induction of Venezuela into Mercosur, the highlight of talks that start Friday. The addition gives the South American trade bloc a decidedly leftist tilt a decade after it emerged during a wave of pro-U.S. free trade sentiment.
Also appearing at the summit is Bolivia’s socialist President Evo Morales and obviously Hugo Chavez. And look all three Latino leaders are nominated as VL’s most influential Latinos!
Via / Yahoo! News
President Chavez: Anti-Semite?
12:00 pm By Maegan La Mala · Religion|Venezuela · Comments Off
15 Mar 2006
In a Christmas Eve speech last year Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said:
The world is for all of us, then, but it so happens that a minority, the descendants of the same ones that crucified Christ, the descendants of the same ones that kicked Bolivar out of here and also crucified him in their own way over there in Santa Marta, in Colombia — a minority has taken possession of all the wealth of the world, a minority has taken ownership of all of the gold of the planet, of the silver, of the minerals, the waters, the good lands, oil, of the wealth, and have concentrated the wealth in a few hands: Less than 10 percent of the population of the world owns more than half of the wealth of the world and … more than the population of the planet is poor, and each day there are more poor people in the whole world.
Does this make him anti-semetic?
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